Wednesday, 9 July 2008

20% time - an experiment (with some results)

A company called Atlassian have been experimenting with allowing their engineers 20% of their time to work on free or non-core projects (a la Google). They said:

You see, while everyone knows about Google's 20% time and we've heard about all the neat products born from it (Google News, GMail etc) - we've found it extremely difficult to get any hard facts about how it actually works in practice.